BSL Tech Talk

Scanning & Cropping Out Text in One Step

noreply@blogger.com (LibTech) — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:25:00 +0000

I've been ask a number of times by customers, "How to I scan a picture from a magazine article, and get rid of all of the text so I just copy the picture?"

Well, outside of using photo editing software, here's an easy way to accomplish this task if you're using an HP scanner:

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View the original video on Blip.Tv at: http://blip.tv/file/879889/

Resizing Your Digital Photos

noreply@blogger.com (LibTech) — Sun, 04 May 2008 15:05:00 +0000

The new digital cameras are great! The image quality from the 7+ megapixel cameras is really sharp, but have you looked at the jpeg file sizes? Most of the file sizes are 2+ megabytes in size. Depending on the capacity of someone's email-box, mailing several of them could fill it right up.

Here's a short video on how to resize those large digital photos:

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The original video can be found here, on BlipTv: http://blip.tv/file/823306

Scanning, Part 2

noreply@blogger.com (LibTech) — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:36:00 +0000

In my last post, you saw what the buttons on top of the scanner are used for. Now watch this video to see what happens when you press Scan.

Scanning video: http://screencast.com/t/YXFfRdDqp

Scanner Buttons

noreply@blogger.com (LibTech) — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:43:00 +0000

You've just purchased a new scanner, and might be wondering what all of those buttons on the lid are. Here's a photo of the buttons on a HP scanner, and how they're used.

"Scan" just scans docs/pics to a file.

"Negative/slides" is used for scanning film.

"Printer" acts as a copier and sends docs directly to be printed.

"Email" attaches the scan to send as an email.

Saving Files to a Flash Drive

noreply@blogger.com (LibTech) — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:28:00 +0000

Files have gotten bigger. Unfortunately floppies disks have not, and sometimes copying/burning your files to CD is not an option.

Here's a short video on how to use a Flash drive:

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View the original file on Blip.tv at : http://mzscils598s08.blip.tv/file/808818/

Welcome to BSL Tech Talk!

noreply@blogger.com (LibTech) — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:20:00 +0000

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